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CaliforniaPeggy

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2. Gandhi said: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind...

Reply to WCGreen (Original post)

Mon Jan 23, 2012, 07:16 PM

Jan 2012

But I think that vengeance is hard-wired into us.

Perhaps the law tries to be impartial, but it's difficult for us humans to implement that.

I don't approve of putting people to death for even heinous crimes, but I have to say that I do feel differently when the crime has been particularly awful.

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A Question as we move deeper into the 21st Century.... [View all] WCGreen Jan 2012 OP

I think its just becoming part of the post-services, post-industrial zero-jobs economy. leveymg Jan 2012 #1

Gandhi said: An eye for an eye leaves the whole world blind... CaliforniaPeggy Jan 2012 #2

Exactly my reaction tularetom Jan 2012 #4

This is a good post and poses something rather profound as to TRY and understand just WHY BrendaBrick Jan 2012 #3

Justice you say? Plato probably wasn't the first to think about it... TreasonousBastard Jan 2012 #5

It's simply a vestige of a barbarian past. BrendaBrick Jan 2012 #6

Why on earth do we give our "government" the authority to kill us? elehhhhna Jan 2012 #7